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Organisations<br />
UPDATE<br />
WAWLC<br />
World Alliance<br />
for Wound and<br />
Lymphoedema<br />
Care<br />
David Keast<br />
President of WAWLC<br />
www.WAWLC.org<br />
EWMA international<br />
Partner Organisation<br />
The World Alliance for Wound and Lymphoedema<br />
Care (WAWLC) continues the hard work on<br />
advancing sustainable prevention and care of<br />
wounds & lymphoedema in settings with limited<br />
resources.<br />
The annual executive board meeting of the<br />
WAWLC took place in Geneva in November 2013.<br />
The coordination and organisation of future initiatives<br />
and activities of the WALWC were discussed at<br />
the meeting.<br />
Development of a dressing kit<br />
Since 2012 the World Alliance for Wound and Lymphoedema<br />
Care (WAWLC) has been in the process<br />
of developing a dressing kit for use in limited<br />
resource settings. This kit will be a dynamic tool<br />
and help in providing the basic equipment for<br />
standardised wound treatment of patients in emergency<br />
situations.<br />
The first step in elaborating this kit was a Delphi<br />
like consultation launched at the end of 2012. As a<br />
second step, the material from this consultation<br />
was discussed by field and scientific experts during<br />
a WAWLC Workshop at the EWMA Conference in<br />
May 2013 in Copenhagen. Here it was discussed<br />
what minimum material is needed to constitute a<br />
standard wound kit.<br />
WAWLC Workshop at EWMA-GNEAUPP <strong>2014</strong><br />
During the EWMA-GNEAUPP Conference in<br />
Madrid, the third step will be elaborated at a<br />
WAWLC workshop where a revised standard kit will<br />
be presented for debate and input.<br />
This workshop will bring together experts in wound<br />
care and actors of humanitarian contexts. Bringing<br />
together these different experiences should help to<br />
define the rest of the essential wound care material<br />
that is needed to <strong>final</strong>ise the standard wound kit.<br />
A list of the material decided on during the two first<br />
steps will be circulated before the workshop.<br />
The workshop will take place on<br />
Wednesday 14 May <strong>2014</strong> at 16:45 -19:10.<br />
Annual WAWLC Symposium at CAWC,<br />
Toronto October <strong>2014</strong><br />
A <strong>final</strong> consolidation of the dressing kit will be presented<br />
at the annual WAWLC Symposium which<br />
will take place at the Canadian Association of<br />
Wound Care (CAWC) Conference from October 30<br />
- November 2, <strong>2014</strong> in Toronto, Canada. The <strong>final</strong><br />
version of the dressing kit will be circulated to<br />
wound care companies in order to have their proposal<br />
on concrete products to be included in the kit.<br />
Wound Course in West Africa<br />
In <strong>2014</strong>, a course on Chronic Wounds will be held<br />
in Cameroon in cooperation between the Faculty of<br />
Medicine and Biomedical Scienes at Yaoundé University,<br />
Cameroon and the Geneva University Hospital<br />
(HUG), Switzerland. The course includes both<br />
theory and practice and is intended for doctors and<br />
nurses as post-graduate training.<br />
Since 2002, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), Switzerland,<br />
has supported the BU programme of the<br />
district hospital, Akonolinga in Cameroon. This projects<br />
falls within the now more than 30 years old<br />
fruitful exchanges between Yaoundé’s University<br />
and the HUG.<br />
Clinic in Leogane, Haiti<br />
On 25th of January – 1st of February <strong>2014</strong>, Heather<br />
Hettrick from Nova South eastern University<br />
(NSU) in Fort Lauderdale and Robyn Bjork from the<br />
International Lymphedema & Wound Care Training<br />
Institute were in Leogane, Haiti, where they provided<br />
training and logistical support for clinical staff,<br />
under the direction of WAWLC Secretariat Dr. John<br />
Macdonald. The treatment results were impressive.<br />
Dr. John Macdonald has actively pursued the reopening<br />
of the lymphedema treatment branch of<br />
the Lymphatic Filariasis (LF) Clinic at the St. Croix<br />
Hospital in Leogane, Haiti. This vision is one step<br />
away from full realization. The next steps include<br />
procuring funding for the clinic, which will serve as<br />
an epicenter for training and treatment of<br />
lymphedema secondary to LF.<br />
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INFO ON WAWLC<br />
WAWLC started as a working group in 2007 and was<br />
officially launched as a global partnership in 2009.<br />
Read more about WAWLC and current projects on the website:<br />
www.wawlc.org.<br />
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EWMA <strong>Journal</strong> <strong>2014</strong> vol 14 no 1